Raya and the Last Dragon - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
The story of diversity and representation in cinema is about evolution. Take Disney and depictions of Asian life and culture. When the studio released Mulan in 1998, it was in part a reaction to the gross stereotyping in "The Siamese Cat Song" in The Aristocats. Two decades later, and Mulan has its own issues, but Raya and the Last Dragon, the 59th animated feature from the House of Mouse enters the discussion. Where it starts is by throwing out the idea of Asian as it stands in American cinema, which is too often a clumsy mish-mash of Chinese and Japanese influences. The sumptuous mythic...